Notes

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume IV: "(V) Colonel
Robert Buckner Bolling, son of Robert (4) Bolling and his fourth
wife, Anne Dade (Stith) Bolling, was born at Petersburg,
Virginia, in 1807, died in 1881. He was one of the fine old type
of wealthy, hospitable, courtly and generous Southern planters,
owned a large estate, worked by his five hundred slaves, and it
was his proud boast that he "never sold a slave." His beautiful
residence in Petersburg called "Centre Hill" was the seat of
generous hospitality, graciously extended to a large circle of
friends and acquaintances. He represented Petersburg in the
state legislature, 1840 to 1850, and was very influential in
public affairs for a much longer term. Colonel Robert B. Bolling
married, in 1831, Sarah Melville Minge (a lovely woman), who
brought as her dower the splendid estate "Sandy Point," on the
James river, daughter of John and Sarah (Stuart) Minge, of Sandy
Point, Charles River county, Virginia. She was a
great-granddaughter of William Cocke, the progenitor of the line
of the Surry Cockes, who died in 1720. Children: Robert, of
Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, a Doctor of Medicine; John M.,
served in the Confederate army, first as a private in a Maryland
regiment, later served under Colonel Mosby, General Mahone's
division in the defence of Richmond and Petersburg; Townsend
Stith, deceased; Monroe Bannister, deceased; Dr. William Holt,
served as a private in a Rockbridge battery attached to
Jackson's brigade and was wounded at Malvern Hill; Stewart, in
the Confederate cavalry, under William H. Lee, a son of General
Robert E. Lee; Bartlett, a cavalryman under Colonel Mosby for
three years, wounded and captured in battle and confined in Fort
Delaware; Samuel Mordecai, of whom further; Anna Dade, born in
Petersburg, Virginia, still a resident of that city."